/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15780782
>how do you know the dating techniques are accurate
Just google it. I'm not an expert and just watched a few videos, so i can't tell you in detail.
>and how do you know the older "ape like hominids" you describe weren't just apes?
Because they start to posses features similar to humans. There are no clear distinction between apes and humans in anthropology, just gradual transition from one "archetype" to the other.

>>15775746
Archaeologists such as Larry Barham of the University of Liverpool, the leader of the expedition that uncovered the structure, believe that wooden tools were potentially even more common than stone tools in the Stone Age, although due to rapid decay of wood in soil, archaeologists could not find such tools. Mentioning the likely co-evolution of wooden and stone tools, they link the innovation shown by the Kalambo structure to the later invention of hafting, with several parts linked together in a single tool.

The timing of the construction of the Kalambo structure coincides with a period of forest coverage of the Kalambo River basin. Barham's team believes the high resource availability of the environment, a permanently elevated water table, and the improvement brought by constructing elevated structures above the floodplain created a habitat conducive to sustained occupation.

The discovery predates the appearance of Homo sapiens by more than 100,000 years. As no hominin remains have been discovered at Kalambo Falls, no conclusive attribution has been made, although a 300,000-year-old Homo heidelbergensis skull has been found at another Zambian site.